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GERMAN CLAIM TO COLONIES

Growing Campaign

DR. SCHACHT AS THE DRIVING FORCE

(Special Air Mail Service)

Berlin. June 14. The address has been circulated which Dr. Elcke, a director of the Reichsbank, delivered last week to the bank officials on the subject of raw materials and colonies. It Indicates that Dr. Schacht's thesis that colonies are indispensable for Germany is to be intensively pro- pagated.

"Dr. Elcke said that there was nu other industrial State in the world which could only balance its trade, obtain raw materials, and pay its debts by its exports of manufac

KING GEORGE V MEMORIAL 'AT · EMPIRE'S HEART

Appeal Launched By Lord Mavor

PLAYING FIELDS FOR YOUTH

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 8. An appeal to the nation for sub- scriptions to the fund for the memorial to the late King George is issued to-day by the Lord Mayor o London, Sir Percy Vincent.

Mr. Baldwin wall broadcast to the nation on the subject of the In the National pro- memorial gramme to-night at 9.30,

In his appeal the Lord Mayor recalls that it was decided at a tured goods. The purchasing Mansion House meeting on March power of Germany in foreign mar-12 that the memorial: should take "kets was being diminished, and the form of:

her present total exports of the value of 350.000,000 to 400,000,000 marks a month was already too low to meet all the demands of industry, the need for foodstuffs. and other claims of the national policy. The main object of Ger- man experts to-day was to obtain enough raw materials for industry #1 home. There had. however. been some Improvement in world conditions lately) and the Jewish boycott was no longer so effective as it had been.

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"A statue of his late Majesty

in London in some noble set- ting, and

"A philanthropic scheme of a specific character which would berieft the whole country and

be associated with his late Ma- jesty's name."

HISTORIC SITE..

The appeal continues: **Suxkestions in great variety were received from. many quarters, and after prolonged investigation An examination of the raw ma-

and deliberation it was decided terial problem. Dr. Ecke continu- that to accomplish the "frst "of ed. led straight to the colonial these purposes an area of ground question. The German need forat Abingdon-street. in the City of raw material and for "Devisen" Westminster, inmediately opposite was to a great extent the need for to the Houses of Parliament, and colonies. The territory now held in close proximity to the West- under mandate by other countries master Abbey, should be acquired, could satisfy most of the German cleared of existing buildings, and requirements with raw materials. laid out as an open space, in the The need for fais. for instance.centre of which a statue of his could largely be satisfied from the late Majesty should be erected. former German colonies.

"For the second purpose it was The

that the most sultable cultivation of rubber was possib'e decided

in German East Africa and the project was the provision of play- Cameroons, and textile raw ma-ing fields for young people and terials uke wool, cattan. fax, children throughout the country.

The site proposed for the were found in hemp, and jute

historic Statue is considerable quantities the, Memorial

in former German colonies. Metals ground, unique in its associations and minerals (such as coal) were and incomparable in situation. It no doubt to be found there, and faces the Houses of Parliament, coffee, cocoa.

bananas, le-to which King George came from tea mons, and tobacco could be grown. time to time in order to open, as a constitutional monarch, the de- liberative assembles of his people; it adjoins the Abber which is the shrine of the nation's spiritual traditions, the place of his corona- tion, and the scene of many great events in his life.

"After the recovery of Our colonies," DI. Eicke said. "we should within about 10 years be able, by intensive labour and the sinking of considerable capital sums, to produce enough raw ma- terial to dispense with a good deal

"It will be necessary to remove ol our own imports from abroad."

a number of business and official It was no use, the speaker main- tained for. Englishmen and Ame-premises which at present occupy ricans to say that there was plenty part of the site. When these are of raw material for all. if at the cleared away new vistas of the same time Germany was not allow Abbey buildings, long concealed, ed to acquire sufficient fereign will be revealed, and fresh dignity currency to cover immense re-and beauty will be added to the surroundings the Palace of Westminster. Here the Memorial Statue will have a distinctive set- ting on a site specially dedicated to it and ever to be associated with the gracious memory of his late Majesty.

quirements in raw material abroad. Great Britain, France. Belgium South Africa, and Australia could Tenounce the administration of mandated territories without en- dangering their own supplies. Adolf Hitler (Dr. Eicke concluded)

room

The asked for

to live. quicker the necessary decisions were taken the sooner would the

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WELFARE OF YOUTH

"His Late Majesty had deeply political sky become clear and at heart the welfare of the rising world frade resume its health generation.

course.

and no happier or more beneficent means of per- petuating his memory could be de- Dr. Schacht is undoubtedly thevised than to provide throughout driving force behind the rapidly the length and breadth of the growing movement Germany land, recreation grounds, to be for the recovery of her lost colo-known as King George's Flelds. nies." He is understood "to main- The project has much to com- tain that the standard of living nmend it. The need for open Germany will inevitably be lower-spaces to which young people and ed unless this problem is gatis- children can resort for exercise factorily solved, and that the only and games, safe from the perils of possible alternative to an early the streets, cannot be exaggerated. solution 15 an explosion of which The scheine is a flexible one and repercussions might be very serious can be carried out in each locality Indeed for Europe.

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London, June 14.

LORRY LOADING

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or on the road"

on the highway on a route much used by the goods carriera,

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in which Herr Hitler seemed to Euteway of a uniform type or of health and happiness through- other appropriate vialble com- out the land. To carry them into subordinate colonial ambitions to

effect a large sum of money will

Presumed to be a student, a joker RISK OF INJURY FROM the realization of German aims memoration of his late Majesty. in Europe, has been widely' misin- "Through the central fund the be required, but I rely upon the

GOODS INSECURELY terpreted. The Fuhrer is stated more prosperous districts will be, admiration and affection which all attached a Belisha beacon, miss- to be wholeheartedly behind the able to help those which are less his people cherish for the memory ing from a street, to the top of the German demand for colonies. fortunate and whose young people of the beloved King who reigned spire of Mitchell Tower, on a coll- for that very season stand most not only on the throne but in ege building in the University of In need of such a brightening in-their hearts for a quarter of a fluence in their lives.

QUEEN MARY MEDAL FOR PREMIER AND MR. KIRKWOOD

APPROVED BY THE KING "Tam permitted to state that these proposals have been sub- mitted to his Majesty King Ed- ward and to her Majesty Queen Mary, who have been graciously pleased to signify their entire ap probation.

Aberdeen, century to make their réalisation Mitchell Tower is 235ft, above street level, and is reached by mounting

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possible,

Donations should be sent to the Lord Mayor, the Mansion House,

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ATTACHED

Not a few prosecutions

Even by day these insecurely breaches of this eminently sensible; packed loads are a grave potential requirement are instituted. For danger; at night the risk is much example, if a bale or box evidently greater. for a driver may come fallen from a goods-carrying vehl- suddenly upon some bulky object cle is found on the roadway the reposing in the fairway, and to police want to know why it be avoid it-when there is time to do BO many have to exhibit a dis- came detached, and a summons Of regulations and orders relat may result. It would, however, be tinctly high standard of driving. well if the guardians of the law Those responsible for the loading did not wait until the article ac of lorries should be called upon to a stairway. climbing ing to motor vehicles of all classes through a window on to a little there are more than enough. Some tually fell off. but, anticipating exercise more rigid inspection of balcony and 30ft, the face of of them seem to be applied with that occurrence, stopped the driver the work, and the police should action while and insisted there and then on his take prompt "preventive unnecessary the spire,

others appear to be honoured fixing the load safety. One sees whenever they see a vehicle of more in the breach than in the far too many lorries piled high which the load is obviously in observance. A good or bad with goods that look as though secure. example of the latter is Section 63 they were remaining in place only of the Construction and Use Re by the direct mercy of Providence. gulations issued in January 1931 That this quality of mercy is not This lays it down that a vehicle, infrequently strained beyond en- must be so loaded that "no danger durance is proved by the many is caused, or is likely to be caus; odds and ends we encounter lying

val.

Designs for the statue to be arestad have not been decided London, June 14.

upon They will be submitted to The Prime Minister and Mr

the King and Queen Mary. It mitted to the King for his appro- is understood that simplicity wil David Kirkwood, MP, have each

Donors may. If they wish, state been presented with a large bronze

"By means of these two schemes be the guiding principle medal struck to commemorate the will be possible to commemorate The design for the commemora to which of the two forms the commissioning of the Queen Mary his late Majesty both by an inspir- tive gateways to set up at the en- memorial is to take. statue or Only ten medals are said to haveing monument at the very heart trance to each of the "King playing fields, they would prefer been issued

of the Empire and also by centres George's Fields' will also be sub- their money to be devoted.

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